OpenStack: Open source community collaboration needed to overcome edge computing adoption barriers
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The open source cloud community is being urged to pull together and overcome the barriers preventing widespread adoption of edge computing practices becoming a reality.This is because edge computing environments have particular characteristics and requirements that cannot be met by using the same tools and strategies traditionally used to create centralised datacentres, the paper states.“The challenge is to revise (and extend when needed) infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) core services in order to deal with aforementioned edge specifics, [such as] network disconnections/bandwidth, limited capacities in terms of compute and storage, unmanned deployments, and so forth,” the paper states.The paper is co-authored by a dozen open source leaders from a mix of supplier and user organisations, including Red Hat, AT&T and Walmart Labs.“There is much work to be done to achieve our goals, and we welcome and encourage the entire open source community to join in both the effort and the opportunity of creating or adapting tools to meet the new requirements of cloud edge computing,” the paper continues.
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